Proverbs 22:27
If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
In Context
26Be not you one of them that shake hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
28Remove not the ancient landmark, which your fathers have set.
Cross References
2 Kings 4:1Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor has come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:27-28
26 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts. 27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? We have here, as often before, a caution against suretiship, as a thing both imprudent and unjust. 1. We must not associate ourselves, nor contract an intimacy, with men of broken fortunes, and reputations, who need and will urge their friends to be bound for them, that they may cheat their neighbours to feed their lusts, and by keeping up a little… Read the whole commentary →